New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DAIRY INDUSTRY ACT 2000 - SECT 20

20 Authority to take proceedings

(1) Any information, complaint or other legal proceeding under this Act may be laid or taken in the name of the Food Authority by the Director-General of the Authority or by any other officer authorised by the Food Authority in that behalf either generally or in any particular case.

(2) In any proceedings the production of a notification in the Gazette that any person has been so authorised is conclusive evidence of the authority and evidence that the authority to act remains in force.

(3) The Director-General of or other officer of the Food Authority must, out of the funds of the Food Authority, be reimbursed all damages, costs, charges and expenses to or with which the Director-General or other officer is put or becomes chargeable because of anything contained in subsection (1).